This is shameful:

Okay, I guess it was a punt. Fred Wertheimer and Democracy 21 make themselves completely irrelevant:

Democracy 21 did not say that Senator John McCain cannot withdraw from the presidential primary public financing system until the Federal Election Commission makes a decision in this case.

We said that the shut down of the FEC has “taken center stage” because there is no agency to make a legal determination of whether McCain can or cannot withdraw from the public financing system. That means that their will be no resolution of the legal question involved here until the agency is re-constituted to decide the legal issue, and if such an FEC decision is appealed, the case is decided by the courts.

Democracy 21 had no trouble interpreting Barack Obama’s statement — “If I am the Democratic nominee, I will aggressively pursue an agreement with the Republican nominee to preserve a publicly financed general election” — to mean that he was opting into the public financing system for the general election. They sit around and parse this stuff all day, set themselves up as judge and jury about what the law is and how it should be interpreted. And now they want to shrug their shoulders because it’s their good buddy John McCain and say that because there’s no quorum at the FEC, he can do whatever the hell he wants?

Some people just love power and the trappings of power. And Democracy 21 and il presidente Fred Wertheimer are clearly some of those people. John McCain lights his world.

Fred Wertheimer and his cow0rkers at Democracy 21 are clearly morally bankrupt. They do not care about political campaign finance law, nor do they care about the presidential matching funds system remaining in a healthy state. If they did, they would choose to defend that over their dear friend John McCain.

Keep in mind that Wertheimer and his pals are making a stink about Obama backing out of a conditional statement, while offering no condemnation when John McCain actual backs out of the matching funds system he had already entered! To them, the issue is what Obama might or might not do down in September. Obviously they’re missing the story happening right in front of them.

This may be hard to believe, but few things have made me physically more ill in my time in politics than this disgusting, immoral, apologism for John McCain’s illegal campaigning.